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Sunlo is a social language learning app -- with friends, and spaced repetition. #BuildInPublic #LanguageLearning by @msnook.xyz

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We are cooking up some interesting things over here...

Do you know any other apps that allow you to learn certain language topics across a region or multiple languages? we're not aware of any but would love to see if there are!
A screenshot/mockup of an interface "My learning goals" showing the top half of a screen. description: "Manage and customise you language learning objectives. Add promps, select languages, and tag your motivation." then there are three items, the top two are green-background and the third is grayed out. the first one has title "Moving to South India", and italicized content "Learn how to get around, otder food, book travel, ask about products and prices, ask for help, etc." then it says "in languages" and has four little badges, "Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam". In the upper right of the box (and the other green box) are icons to move the item up or down in the list, a Pin to "pin" this item, a pencil icon to edit, and a power switch to enable/disable. The second green item has a number "2" on the side and says title "Family Languages" and contents: "Become pretty fluent to converse with family, friends, understand cultural references and idioms" and then finally "In (2) languages" with badges for "Marathi, Konkani". The third item is grayed out a bit; there aren't as many button in the top-right. The content says title "Just for fun" and text "Learn to count to 10 and say please/thankyou type basics in the world's most commonly spoken languages." And then below it says "in (13) languages" with badges for: "Arabic, French, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, Portuguesse, Spanish, Zulu, Hindi, Bengali, Farsi, Swahili, Tamil". This one has a little white alert that has the power symbol and says "Disabled: New cards will not be added from this goal". Then it's a little truncated so you can't see if there's more on the page except the title and this list of three items. This second image shows the same "My Learning Goals" title and description as the first (please see the first/previous image description for missing context here). It only has two items, and shows at the bottom a button that says "Add another goal" with a plus sign. This screenshot has the same "Family languages" goal as the previous, same text and buttons and light green colour. But it's second in the list. This time the first item is light yellow/gold, rather than green, and its "Pin" icon is filled in yellow to indicate this item is pinned. It has an alert at the bottom of the card that has a star and says, "Primary focus: New flash cards will mostly come from this goal". The title of this item is "Moving for Work" and the text description is "Learn basic conversational spanish for my 3-month work trip to Mexico City, with a particular focus on my workplace, a web development agency, where we will speak a fair amount of English and interact with English-language tools and documentation, but we will mostly converse and have meetings in Spanish". Then finally, "In (1) language" with a badge that just says "Spanish".
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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We can't wait till Sunlo has a library of Pidgin flash cards... one of Sunlo's core ideas is that around the world, most people are speaking some kind of pidgin or creole language, and we would love to support learners exploring this beautiful, practical, expressive, West African language.
BBC News Pidgin headline, photo of ants crawling on a cube of sugar: "Ant wey wan flex sugar, suppose ready for slippers" BBC News Pidgin headline, photo of a woman looking in a mirror applying theatrical makeup: "Mirror new dey lie, na you no wan see di truth" BBC News Pidgin headline, photo showing a woman luxuriating on a couch, fanning herself with money: "If you no use sense cop wetin dey sweet, e go purge your belle" BBC News Pidgin headline, photo of a cute little rat being lowered down on a mission-impossible-style harness, trying to safely lift the cheese off of a mouse trap: "If bush meat no sabi trap, trap sabi bush meat"
October 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Welp. I guess we're leaving Vercel...
A tweet from Vercel CEO proudly posting his selfie with Benjamin Ntanyahu, "Optimistic for peace, safety, and greatness for Israel and its neighbours."
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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d'y'all like my icons? we are doing a UX pass looking at navigation, discoverability of features, hinting at happy paths, etc. And icons are always a favourite topic to nerd out about with your designer pals :))
deck settings section called "your daily goal", there are three options, "10 - relaxed", "15 - standard", and "20 - serious". the icons are relaxed: a kitty cat; standard: 3 scoops of ice cream; serious: a rocket ship.
September 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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update! limited chat feature is live :)) we're making sure the flashcards stay the main character, so for now you can just send each other cards and accept/ignore them. let's see how it goes!
image of the code merge request: Feature: Chat with friends screenshot showing a chat with a friend called "Garlic times", sending each other a couple phrases
August 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Not me finally implementing the chat feature I've been putting off for ages....
screenshot showing a blank chat window with a friend called "GarlicFace". At the bottom there's a chat box and a "send" button, and it says "send a phrase recommendation" screenshot showing the previous page but now you've clicked the "send a phrase recommendation" button and there's a drawer pulled up that says "recommend a phrase" and has a search interface screenshot showing a chat window with a friend sending you a couple of phrases. one of your messages back says "You added 'Estoy bien, gracias' to your deck" showing that when a friend sends you a phrase, they get little feedbacks when you decide to accept their recommendation.
August 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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We are doing testing with our first users, and taking inspo from old Tumblr posts 😇🤗🧄🥦
user "biggest-gaudiest-patronuses" posts: "what if someone else does it better later?" Good! Technically the Wright brothers built the worst airplanes in the world. If you do it first, you do it worst, and history will thank you for it.
July 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Wait, this is Sunlo's business plan... is that ... is that not how you do it?
business person: describe your audience me: sensitive, intelligent, empathic business person: no like ad demographics me: genius, beautiful, heroic business person: what products do they like me: love 💕
July 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Question for the #microcopy nerds out there:
"Choose a deck" vs. "Choose a language" ?
"Start a new language" vs. "Start a new deck" ?

Is one more concrete than the other? Is one more natural than the other? Is one easier to understand?

Microcopy is a subtle art and we're still learning!
Screenshot of the opened sidebar in the sunlo app -- at the top there's a dropdown menu that says "Choose a deck" and below there's a nav menu with sections called "Learning center" and "Friends & contacts". One of the links says "Start a new language" (instead of "start a new deck" which is the microcopy question being asked about here!)
May 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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psst -- if you only have 1 person on your team and no office and on tuesdays you go to a local board game studio for their coworking day, it's okay to say stuff like "Tuesday is our no-meetings day here at the Sunlo offices/campus/HQ"
May 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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(Sunlo will never use AI-generated slop to try to teach you a language)
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Headline from The Verge: Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
April 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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After the last several months of building out the tech, we're finally getting close to a testable product! Sunlo should be ready for friends & family testing in May!

#BuildInPublic

Features include:
- create cards, add translations, curate your deck
- daily reviews with spaced repetition algo
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April 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM